The Nspire CX's CPU is already 8 times faster than the GBA's (~128 MHz without Nover VS 16 MHz) and the RAM is plentiful so we have a lot of headroom to emulate the GBA. With the Prime you are swapping roles.

The GBA has a dedicated graphics controller which the CX doesn't, which is why there is frame skipping.

Yeah that's what I meant.

Also now that I've read the test I'd like to mention that on the HP40G you could hold Alpha/Shift like the modifiers (Ctrl/Alt/Shift/Win) on your computer keyboard. I hope this is still here because it was very handy. Also no surprise that Xcas is the CAS engine in there since Bernard Parisse (Xcas's lead developper) was the one who wrote the CAS on previous HP calcs.

I hope that the Prime CPU won't constantly switch speed such as based on battery power, though

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Yeah I just hope that if that's the case, that the current prototypes are also running at 266 MHz, else it woud suck if our programs ran slower on the final machine than critor's calc, giving us false hope. That said, 266 should still be fast enough.

What's the maintenance menu key btw? I knoe on the 39gII it was ON+F4, but on the prime there is no F keys.

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